[TriLUG] A rare look inside a Google Datacenter

[bak]

I liked the pretty pictures in Wired, but when I read that Google gives away Gmail for free because they're just so darn energy efficient, I laughed and closed the tab.

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On Oct 17, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Michael Rothwell <michael at rothwell.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
> 
>> In case you missed the media coverage this morning... Google did
>> something very unusual today.  They invited Steven Levy (author of "In
>> The Plex") and CBS This Morning to the Lenoir Datacenter, and gave
>> them a tour of the server floor.  They also published photos of the
>> server floor, video off the offices, and Street View imagery that
>> allows you to walk right onto the datacenter floor.
>> 
>> Here are some handy links if you want to explore...
>> 
>> Steven Levy's article in Wired:
>> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/
>> 
>> Google's official blog post:
>> 
>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-data-centers-inside-look.html
>> 
>> Video about the Street View imagery, and showing some more of the office
>> space:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avP5d16wEp0
> 
> 
> You can see Aaron walking by, and Joel and me in the background, starting
> at about 19 seconds:
> http://youtu.be/avP5d16wEp0?t=19s
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> The front door in Street View:
>> http://goo.gl/maps/lqWuN
>> 
>> The CBS This Morning clip:
>> 
>> http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57533989/behind-the-cloud-a-tour-of-googles-secretive-data-facilities/?tag=showDoorFlexGridLeft;flexGridModule
>> 
>> Beautiful shot of the datacenter (and the mountains, and the moon...) at
>> night:
>> http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/places/9
>> 
>> Some of the staff of the datacenter, as the Street View car drove by
>> (including Joel Ebel, former TriLUG Steering Committee member):
>> http://goo.gl/maps/gefI8
>> 
>> In case you're trying to identify SRE's desks, they are covered with
>> large leaves from Ikea, and sport a brightly-colored parrot, but you
>> can only see the tops of them for the Bloxes wall.  Thus, you can't
>> tell it from the video or Street View, but SRE still has a couple
>> empty desks.  If the environment looks like something you'd enjoy, as
>> always, feel free to send me a resume.  :)  Only mine and Joel's
>> shared standing desk is visible from the Street View imagery:
>> http://goo.gl/maps/VKys9
>> 
>> Aaron S. Joyner
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